Improvement in cotton or woolen cans



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STATES PATENT QFFICE.

.enr-)Nar W. sHnPARD, or NEW Youn, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN VCOT'l'ON OER WOOLEN CNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,854, dated February1l, 1873.

can for cotton and woolen factories which shall be cheap, durable, andsimple in construction, and in which the several parts are connectedthrough bead or .groove attachments, and without the expense and laborof soldering. My invention, whichY is a new article of manufacture,consists in securing the bottom and its hoop to the cylinderby two ormore bead or groove attachments, and in securing above saidbase orbottom hoop,

and to strengthen the cylinder, an independent outer hoopor band, thesame, like the lower or bottom hoop, being permanently attached tothecylinder without employing solder, and simply througha bead or grooveconnection, and by which arrangement, avoiding, as I do, seam-joints andrivets, the interior surface of the can is left exceedingly Smooth.

The construction and operation of my invention are as follows: A is thebottom, and may be flat or of any other desired form; and B is the outerhoop. This bottom A and outer hoop B are stamped or otherwise formed outof a single piece of` tin or any other suit- O is the cylinder, and isconnected by a single lap-seam. This cylinder C is turnedk `slightly outat its base or lower edge, as clearly shown at C', and which secures adouble advantagethat of affording a permanent' connection with the beada of the bottom and hoop` A B by turning the lower edge of the cylinderout and back into the bead a, and, besides, leaves the interior of thecylinder ysmooth and without any obstruction at its base, which isessential.

This manner of securing the cylinder saves the expense `and labor ofcovering its lower edge or base with solder, which heretofore, in allcans of this character, has been found necessary and indispensable inorder to secure a smooth inner surface of the cylinder.

The upper section of the hoop is fastened or attached through a bead, b,in which en ters and is secured the bead orouter face of the lowergroove c of the cylinder. D is an independent outer hoop or band, and issecured through bead or groove attachments d c, as is the hoop B, andimmediately above the same.

The object of this hoop or yband D is simply to afford additionalstrength to the lower section ofthe cylinder, and which is essential inview of the fact that these cans are almost invariably moved about thefactory by the operatives taking hold of the same at the top and thenpushing them along with the foot.

`A can constructed as herein described is not only neater and moredurable than the old-style cotton-can, but can be manufactured with asaving of nearly one-half the labor and expense.

I save in each can one seam, and avoid the expense of solder, which, incotton and woolen cans as now manufactured, is about twenty ve cents percan; and, besides, the expenditure of labor and time is only aboutonehalf. l

Practical experience has fully demonstrated Y the fact that cansconstructed as herein described can be made at a saving to themanufacturer of from fifty to sixty cents per can, and at the same timefurnish the trade with a more durable can-one having a smoother interiorsurface, seams, rivets, Src., being avoidedand one in every way bettersuited to the trade than is any of this class of cans now in the market.

Heretofore this class of cans had to be made of tin; Vbut cansconstructed as herein described can be made of black iron, and which,although not so neat in appearance, are equally as well adapted tofactory purposes, and which will save from fifty cents to one dollar percan in the cost of material alone. n

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a can In testimony whereof IYV havesigned my consisting. of the bottom and hoop A B, name to thisspeeication in the presence of formed out of a single piece of metal,cylintwo subscribing witnesses. der C, and -band D, when the same are soconnected by beads or grooves as to avoid H' W' SHEPARD the use ofsolder in attaching the several Witnesses: parts together7 as and forthe purpose spee-` GEO. B. PATQERSON,

ied. JNO. B. BAKER.

